Another pedophile priest arrested (Pensacola)

[gulfcoastliberal]

This is a few days old but wanted to post it. The Pensacola sheriffs office has a dedicated internet trolling team to hook pedophiles. Anyhow, here's the story:

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- A former Lutheran minister was sentenced to nearly three years in prison for seeking sex over the Internet from an undercover officer he thought was a 14-year-old boy.

Michael Anthony Harris, 43, said during his sentencing Wednesday that he is not a pedophile.

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Circuit Judge Nick Geeker sentenced him to two years and 101/2 months. Harris pleaded no contest last month to third-degree felony charges of attempted lewd or lascivious battery and using a computer to solicit the sexual conduct of a crime.

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Harris began communicating with the boy in an online chat room April 4 and steered the conversations toward the topic of sex, said Escambia County sheriff's officials.

http://www.local6.com/news/5710523/detail.html

[helderheid]

1. not a pedophile? What in the hell WOULD he call himself!

[Betsy Ross]

3. Paederast (sp?)

Peodphile is generic, paederast is a man who sexual abuses boys only.

[democrat in Tallahassee]

4. maybe he called himself a republican?

[TrogL]

2. He's not a priest

former Lutheran minister

[democrat in Tallahassee]

5. Actually I know someone who went to this church and he was a

practicing minister at the time he was arrested; Now he is a former minister but when he was arrested he was a minister. My friend's family are staunch military Bush supporters and they were Shocked. Their whole life revolved around this church.